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title: Five minutes more, and the stage was empty, the company had vanished… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Five minutes more, and the stage was empty, the company had vanished, and not a sound more was heard--all were gone. Who acts: stage, company, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 19

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Five minutes more, and the stage was empty, the company had vanished, and not a sound more was heard--all were gone.

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**Who acts:** stage, company, all · **What happens:** be, vanish, hear · **To what, where:** sound

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stage, company, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:102:19
# text = Five minutes more, and the stage was empty, the company had vanished, and not a sound more was heard--all were gone.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the stage |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the company | a sound |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 4 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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